History of the Selenium Project

History of the Selenium Project

Selenium IDE,
Selenium RC,
Selenium WebDriver,
and Selenium Grid are the Selenium Projects.

• Selenium showtime came to life inward 2004 when Jason Huggins was testing an internal application at ThoughtWorks. 

• In 2006 an engineer at Google named Simon Stewart started lead house a projection he called WebDriver.

• inward 2008, the whole Selenium squad decided to merge Selenium Webdriver amongst Selenium RC inward club to
form to a greater extent than powerful tool called Selenium 2.0

Selenium 1.0
(Selenium IDE + Selenium RC + Selenium Grid)

Selenium 2.0 (Selenium 1.0 + WebDriver)
(Selenium IDE + Selenium RC + Selenium WebDriver + Selenium Grid)

Note: Now Selenium RC is solely for maintenance projects.
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Selenium IDE - It has IDE but no programming interface, used to exercise an execute Test cases.

Selenium WebDriver - It has Programming interface only, no IDE, it is used to exercise as well as execute Test Cases

Selenium Grid - It execute Tests inward Parallel.
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